METHOD AND CIRCUITRY TO GENERATE A REFERENCE CURRENT FOR READING A MEMORY CELL, AND DEVICE IMPLEMENTING SAME
    3.
    发明授权
    METHOD AND CIRCUITRY TO GENERATE A REFERENCE CURRENT FOR READING A MEMORY CELL, AND DEVICE IMPLEMENTING SAME 有权
    方法与电路产生的参考流程用于读取存储单元与设备

    公开(公告)号:EP1927111B1

    公开(公告)日:2009-06-03

    申请号:EP06805759.5

    申请日:2006-09-19

    发明人: BAUSER, Philippe

    IPC分类号: G11C11/4099 G11C7/14

    CPC分类号: G11C7/14 G11C11/4099

    摘要: There are many inventions disclosed herein. In one aspect, the present inventions are directed to methods and circuitry to control, adjust, determine and/or modify the absolute and/or relative positioning or location (i.e., absolute or relative amount) of reference current which is employed by sensing circuitry to sense the data state of a memory cell during a read operation of one or more memory cells. The control, adjustment, determination and/or modification of the reference current levels may be implemented using many different, distinct and/or diverse techniques and circuitry, including both analog and digital techniques and circuitry.

    INTEGRATED CIRCUIT INCLUDING MEMORY ARRAY HAVING A SEGMENTED BIT LINE ARCHITECTURE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING AND/OR OPERATING SAME
    4.
    发明公开
    INTEGRATED CIRCUIT INCLUDING MEMORY ARRAY HAVING A SEGMENTED BIT LINE ARCHITECTURE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING AND/OR OPERATING SAME 审中-公开
    用于控制和/或业务存储器阵列和分段位线的体系结构和方法集成电路

    公开(公告)号:EP2041752A2

    公开(公告)日:2009-04-01

    申请号:EP07810300.9

    申请日:2007-07-10

    IPC分类号: G11C11/34 G11C16/04

    摘要: An integrated memory circuit device having a memory cell array (102) including a plurality of bit lines (e.g., 32a, 32b) and a plurality of bit line segments (e.g., 32a1, 32b1) wherein each bit line segment is coupled to an associated bit line (32a, 32b). The memory cell array (102) further includes a plurality of memory cells (12), wherein each memory cell (12) includes a transistor (14) having a first region, a second region, a body region, and a gate coupled to an associated word line (28) via an associated word line segment. A first group of memory cells (12) is coupled to the first bit line (32a) via the first bit line segment (32a1) and a second group of memory cells (12) is coupled to the second bit line (32b) via the second bit line segment (32b1). A plurality of isolation circuits (104), disposed between each bit line segment (32a1, 32b1) and its associated bit line (32a, 32b), responsively connect the associated bit line segment to or disconnect the associated bit line segment (32a1, 32b1) from the associated bit line (32a, 32b).